What is TB infection and how do you treat it?
TB infection means someone has bacteria sleeping in their body. They're not sick or contagious because the bacteria are dormant. TB infection is detected when someone has a positive skin test but a normal chest x-ray and no other sign of tuberculosis disease. To kill these sleeping bacteria and to prevent the development of active disease, persons with TB infection are often advised to take several months of treatment, usually with only one or two medications.

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1. What is TB?
2. How is TB spread?
3. What are the signs and symptoms of TB?
4. How do you treat active TB?
5. What is TB infection and how do you treat it?
6. What is the difference between TB infection and TB disease?
7. What is the TB skin test?
8. How important is TB today?